This open-source international exhibit showcases the incredible variety of light-based science being researched today across the electromagnetic spectrum, across scientific disciplines, and across technological platforms.

Alaska Entrepreneurship Week is a statewide movement to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Each year during the last week of July, communities around Alaska hold events that celebrate and showcase local innovators, inventors, entrepreneurs and to inspire the next wave of innovations and business ventures right here in Alaska. Come join in the fun and innovation!

Archival photographs, art, artifacts and memorabilia showcase the rich history of baseball in Anchorage and throughout the state, including how late 19th century icebound whalers spread ashes on sea ice to form baseball diamonds.

Sea ice provides hunters and whalers with vital access to resources, it helps to moderate the world’s weather, and it is home to much of the microscopic life that supports some of the world’s most valuable fisheries. Explore the historical role this material has played in the Arctic.

Join a museum docent for a 45-minute guided tour and learn about Alaska’s history, art, indigenous people and more. Tours vary each day and include museum highlights and tours of the Anchorage Centennial exhibition “City Limits.” For the daily schedule visit the front desk or call (907) 929-9215. Included with admission.

Runners run through downtown Anchorage before heading out along the scenic coastline and through the city’s wooded greenbelt. 49K ultra, marathon run, walk, relay; half marathon; 5K August 16, kids 2K, and one mile race on August 15